Your task each week will be to read and respond to one of the articles below on your blog... you must also respond to everyone's blog posts.

Teens Bold Blogs Alarm Schools.doc
Banning Student Containers.pdf
How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century.doc
High-tech Devices Help Kids With Disabilities.doc
Wiki Wisdom - Lessons for Educators
Choose something from "Co-Learners"... in the discussion, be sure to cite the article that you are responding to.
Choose something from "Weblogg-ed"... in the discussion, be sure to cite the article that you are responding to.
Choose something from "Alan November's Weblog"... in the discussion, be sure to cite the article that you are responding to.
Podcasting, A Tool to Motivate Learners
Eight Tech Trends for Librarians (and Teachers too!)

Marc Prensky:
Suggestions...

• The Reformers are Leaving Our Schools in the 20th Century
• What I Learned in NYC Classrooms
• Blame our Young? Or Use Their Passion!
• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

Will Richardson's Big Shifts

• Open Content
• Many teachers, 24/7 learning
• Social, Collaborative Construction of Meaningful Knowledge
• Teaching is Conversation, not Lecture
• Know "Where" Learning
• Readers are No Longer Just Readers
• The Web as Notebook
• Writing is No Longer Limited to Text
• Mastery is the Product, Not the Test
• Contribution, Not Completion, as the Ultimate Goal

Ed Leadership:

Teaching the iGeneration

Edutopia:

Fostering Student Creativity and Responsibility With Blogging

the Journal:

OMG: Engaging Students on Their Own Terms --- Creating engaging lessons using mobile technology
THE Journal: All Current Articles

• IT Leadership: Key Facts to Advance Ed Tech in America
• Working with English Learner Data: A Primer
• Understanding Learner Variability
• Teens Less Concerned Than Adults About Fake Accounts and Bots on Social Sites
• How the Use of School Vouchers Has Destroyed Chile's Public Education System

Tech & Learning:

Use any Web 2.0 tool at any Level of Bloom’s Taxonomy
10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have
Tech Learning

• Join Seesaw for PD in Your Pj's
• Simple Tip for Quality Posting & Consuming on Facebook
• Class Tech Tips: Adobe Spark and Nearpod: Tips for a Must-Try Combo
• Shift Science Curriculum Towards Inquiry-Based With Free Smithsonian Resource
• Microsoft Education Expands Grant Program, Updates Minecraft

21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn
Chapter 14 - A Framework for Assessing 21st Century Skills by Doug Reeves
Chapter 11 - Innovation Through Technology by Cheryl Lemke
Chapter 5 - the singapore vision.pdf
Chapter 6 - Designing New Learning Environments to Support 21st Century Skills by Bob Pearlman
Chapter 8 - Problem Based Learning: The Foundation for 21st Century Skills by John Barell

The Tech Commandments